Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
WEB
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
YLT
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
DBT
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.